Articles Tagged 'Penny Dreadful'

It’s Friday, and you know what that means! That’s right—it’s time for a grim reminder of our mortality and the short time we have left on this earth! Thankfully the makers of Penny Dreadful have stepped in to do the honors. The horror series returns to our screens this May 1, and by the looks of […]

The second series of the spook-fest Penny Dreadful is on the way, and to double check the adrenal glands and the creeped-out cortex of the brain, so everyone is ready, Showtime have released a trailer. If you want to play a little game, try and spot how many British actors appear in the trailer alone. […]

Oh, the temptation to launch into this story claiming that we made that headline alliterative because we want to (because we want to). So, Penny Dreadful’s Billie Piper used to be a pop star. This may be news to some of our younger readers, because it happened in the late ’90s and early 2000s and […]

Showtime’s highly erotic and bloody Penny Dreadful is spilling over with British actors. Based in Victorian England, the story is a mashup of classic literary characters like Dr. Victor Frankenstein, his Creature and the never aging Dorian Gray, all existing in one realm. The Brit-heavy ensemble cast is led by French actress Eva Green (Casino Royale), who […]

Showtime’s Penny Dreadful mashes up classic literary characters like Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein, Vanessa Ives with Victorian London. “There’s a reason we’re still reading Frankenstein 200 years later. Why Dracula still frightens us. One of the joys of Penny Dreadful is where we come into sync with the classic text and where we deviate,” says John Logan […]